Washing-machine



(No Model.)

L. REINHARDT.

WASHING MACHINE.

Patented Apr. 24

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WITNESSES,

Unirnn STATES PATENT tribe.

LOUISA REINHARDT, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

WASl-llNG lVlACl-HNE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381.6%3, dated April 24, 1888.

Application filed April 28, 188i. Renewed March 15, 1888 Serial No. 267,247. (No model.)

To all 1071-0727, 1125 may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUISA REIXIIARDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisvilie, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certai 11 new and useful Improvements in. lVashing-lllaehines; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to washing-machines; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of devices herein specified, and particularly pointed out in the claim annexed.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a top view of my improved machine complete. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the machine in the plane indicated by dotted line as w on Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa vertical section in the plane indicated by dotted line y 3/ on Fig. 1.

The letter A of the drawings represents a circular tub provided with holding-ears a a, and it is recessed on its top at b b to receive and hold the cross bar D, hereinafter described. This tub is also provided with ribs 0, which are secured vertically, horizontally,

and diagonally to its inner wall and bottom, as represented on the drawings. The diagonallyarranged ribs 0' are intended to serve not only as rubbing bars, but also to partially close the spaces formed by the ribs arranged at right angles, and prevent the goods being washed from becoming packed in such spaces.

The letter D indicates a cross-bar, whose width is only sufficient to fit snugly in the re cesses b b on the top of the tub, and is provided with hinged and slotted hasps F adapted for looking over the ears a a, to keep the crossbar firmly in position.

It will be observed that the bar D is formed of two pieces of board or plank, which are bolted together and made separable by means of screw-threaded bolts and nuts. This construction enables me to arrange the large standard G, hereinafter described, in such manner that the cross-bar shall be clasped both at top and bottom by the enlarged por lions thereof, as shown.

G represents astandard, to the upper end of which is firmly attached the double crank and haudles,(marked J.) A portion of this standard is cut away, as shown at h, to correspond with a small opening in the c1'oss-bar,througl1 which it is passed, thereby forming a collar both above and below said bar. A. washer, n, is interposed between the upper side of the cross-bar and the upper collar of the standard. This also must be formed in two sections, and nailed or otherwise secured to the cross-bar.

The letter H represents a hemisphere, preferably of wood. In this hemisphere I arrange a series of radial arms (marked 0) in the manner shown, to the end that when the 1161111 sphere is rotated said arms shall serve to reach and rub the goods being washed against the ribs of the tub.

The standard G is securely attached at its lower end to the top of the hemisphere, preferably by passing said lower end into a suitable recess found in the hemisphere and gin ing or cementing it therein. It is obvious that such connections may be formed by a plate attached to the collar on the standard, and screws passing through such plate into the top of the hemisphere.

I attach especial importance to hemisphere H and the manner in which the radial arms are arranged thereon, for while I am aware that .disks with similar washingarms have heretofore been used, such disks fail to furnish the permanency and ready means provided by the hemisphere for arranging the arms in the direction desired, making them secure against ordinary strain. I furthermore attach im* portance to the construction of the large standard D and the means I have provided for con meeting it with the cross-bar, as I find such construction affords great strength and solidity to the operating parts.

It is obvious that my machine is operated by the double crank J either by one hand or two, as the nature of the case may require.

An essential feature of my invention consists in the novel manner of mounting the shaft of the rotative hemisphere H, whereby this shaft is prevented from vertical motion, and may be detached from the two-part crossbar D, the latter being readily removable from the tub, the parts of said bar being firmlyheld to gether by bolts and nuts and a two-part washer,

1, the joint of which crosses the joint of the and provided with loops, and the two-part said bar, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. washer n, all substantially as specified. IO

Having described my invention, I claim In testimony whereof I affix my signature in The combination, with a wash-tub recessed presence of two Witnesses. 5 at b b, and provided with ears a a, of the ro- LOUISA REINHARDT.

tative standard Gr, bearing an armed rubber Witnesses: and a crank, and provided with an annular J. SPEED PEAY,

groove, the two-part crossbar bolted together JOHN FOWLER. 

